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Though I haven't seen it myself, my roommate read this and immediately thought of the movie "Surrogates", wherein apparently this type of control has become the

• krenoten 14y ago
  So, that is a possible bad outcome. A possible good outcome could be the elimination of much of the loss of information that happens when we ham-handedly convert our thoughts to verbal, or especially written, communication. Imagine how much we might start caring about each other when we can stream each other's emotions and experiences. Imagine how much we might learn about each other.
  • Retric 14y ago
    Face to Face communication already encodes emotions and experiences fairly well. What's missing from written and or auditory only communication is the body language side channel. While you can feel fear when reading a novel, and joy when talking on the phone etc it takes a lot more effort to evoke such emotions. What would be really interesting IMO is if you could add that side channel to recorded video etc and really feel what a directory was aiming for etc. PS: Learning to communicate over a neural link would be at least as hard as learning a new language, which is why I suggest the side channel approach. Body language is useful and much simpler than say Spanish.
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